G01S 7/52046
Techniques for image enhancement involving transmitter or receiver
Official title: {Techniques for image enhancement involving transmitter or receiver (image enhancement by image data processing G06T5/00)}
G01S7/52046 (Techniques for image enhancement involving transmitter or receiver) appears on 1,216 US grants and 1,059 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01S- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Pediatric volumetric ultrasound scanner25 Aug 2026US 12,714,398 B2The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
- Systems and methods of sparse orthogonal diverging wave ultrasound imaging25 Aug 2026US 12,717,028 B2Daxsonics Ultrasound Inc.
- Apparatus18 Aug 2026US 12,710,522 B2Canon Medical Systems Corporation
- Filtering and apodization combination for ultrasound image generation and associated systems, methods, and devices11 Aug 2026US 12,702,383 B2Koninklijke Philips N. V.
- Processing circuitry, system and method to test pixels in an ultrasonic imaging device based on comparing a baseline pixel performance dataset with a current pixel performance dataset11 Aug 2026US 12,704,613 B2Exo Imaging, Inc.
- Spread spectrum coded waveforms in ultrasound diagnostics10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263048 A1Decision Sciences International Corporation
- Miniature Hardware and Methods to Transmit and Receive Signals without Interference13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235744 A1Imperial College Innovations Limited
- Method and apparatus for packaging system circuity and a transducer array6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227508 A1DarkVision Technologies Inc.
- Adaptive ultrasound beamforming23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211111 A1University of Leeds
- Systems and methods for improving ultrasound image quality16 Jul 2026US 2026/0198900 A1Maui Imaging, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for ultrasound imaging using acoustic impedance reconstruction270US 6,200,266 B1Case Western Reserve University · 2001
- System and method for 3-D medical imaging using 2-D scan data239US 5,582,173 ASiemens Medical Systems, Inc. · 1996
- Ultrasound imaging method and system for transmit signal generation for an ultrasonic imaging system capable of harmonic imaging236US 5,913,823 AAcuson Corporation · 1999
- Ultrasonic diagnostic imaging of response frequency differing from transmit frequency228US 5,879,303 AATL Ultrasound, Inc. · 1999
- Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus for generating an image based on extracted harmonics component214US 6,146,330 AKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 2000